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The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

218: Pong: The Inside Story with Al Alcorn - The Retro Hour EP218

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

The Retro Hour

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.9558 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Panzer Dragoon VR: https://bit.ly/3dKFU81                                   
Alien Breed 3D for GZDoom: https://bit.ly/2xGymCR
Preserving Flash Games: https://bit.ly/2w4OVHZ
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Transcript

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0:00.0

I can't believe it.

0:03.6

Max has asked me to move in with him.

0:06.0

I mean, you practically live with each other already, but that's great.

0:09.9

Did you hear that, Joe?

0:11.5

Yes, thanks for letting us know.

0:14.3

I see you've updated your universal credit claim.

0:17.1

Now you're going to be living together.

0:21.3

If you're telling other people

0:22.8

about a change in your circumstances,

0:25.4

tell us too to avoid a penalty.

0:27.8

Search Tell DWP.

0:30.0

Coming up on this week's show,

0:31.8

we taught preserving flash games.

0:34.3

Playing Panzer Dragoon in VHR.

0:36.3

And we talked to Atari Legend Al A.

0:38.3

Hello and welcome to the Retro Hour podcast episode number 218, your weekly dose of

0:47.3

retro gaming and technology news with me Dan Wood, me Rabby Abbott and me Joe Fox.

0:51.3

Now every year on this show around Christmas time, we do a little thing called the Retro Hour Annual Christmas Super Quiz. And recently, being spending a lot of time indoors with the family, watching TV, eating snacks, feels a bit like we should maybe put the Christmas tree up again. And I feel like, why don't we enjoy ourselves? But actually, how's about this for a little question, lads? Name the game, released in 1972, you're probably sorting arcades back in the day, by a gentleman called Al Alcorn. Well, we could pretend and get it wrong, but I know it's Pong. Because you've seen the title of this week's show. Because I've seen the title of this week. And that was a sexy arcade union, wasn't it? Yeah was, there is actually, I think it's an original.

1:29.2

There's one at Arcade Club in Leeds.

1:30.6

Oh, really?

1:31.1

Yeah, and it's got the paddles on there. I wanted that my mate, Paul, like, a few months ago, and like, it's so much fun. I mean, Pong, you know, considering it is one of the earliest arcade, me, one of the on this video games.

1:41.2

It is one of the most fun two-player experiences, I think,

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